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Boulakis Paradeisios Alexandros

GIGA Neurosciences - Physiology of Cognition

Département des sciences cliniques

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ORCID
0000-0003-3885-5947
Main Referenced Co-authors
Demertzi, Athina  (27)
Mortaheb, Sepehr  (22)
Raimondo, Federico (13)
Koroma, Matthieu  (7)
Naccache, Lionel (5)
Main Referenced Keywords
mind-blanking (7); spontaneous thinking (7); canonical correlations (3); anterior cingulate cortex (2); dynamic functional connectivity (2);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
GIGA CRC In vivo Imaging - Physiology of Cognition - ULiège (2)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Neurosciences & behavior (29)
Neurology (1)
Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (1)
Theoretical & cognitive psychology (1)
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Publications (total 32)

The most downloaded
192 downloads
Mortaheb, S., Van Calster, L., Raimondo, F., Klados, M. A., Boulakis, P., Georgoula, K., Majerus, S., Van De Ville, D., & Demertzi, A. (04 October 2022). Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (41), 2200511119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2200511119 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/267818

The most cited

33 citations (OpenAlex)

Mortaheb, S., Van Calster, L., Raimondo, F., Klados, M. A., Boulakis, P., Georgoula, K., Majerus, S., Van De Ville, D., & Demertzi, A. (04 October 2022). Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (41), 2200511119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2200511119 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/267818

Articles accepted in reviewed journal

Boulakis, P., Simos, N.-I., Zoi, S., Mortaheb, S., Schmidt, C., Raimondo, F., & Demertzi, A. (10 February 2025). Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind-blanking occurrences. Scientific Reports, 15, 4956. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-81618-1
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Boulakis, P., & Demertzi, A. (01 February 2025). Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 61, 101481. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101481
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Boulakis, P., Mortaheb, S., Van Calster, L., Majerus, S., & Demertzi, A. (29 August 2023). Whole-brain deactivations precede uninduced mind-blanking reports. Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (40), 6807-6815. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0696-23.2023
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Mortaheb, S., Van Calster, L., Raimondo, F., Klados, M. A., Boulakis, P., Georgoula, K., Majerus, S., Van De Ville, D., & Demertzi, A. (04 October 2022). Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (41), 2200511119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2200511119
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Oral presentations in conferences with scientific selection committee

Boulakis, P. A., Kusztor, A., Andrillon, T., & Demertzi, A. (07 February 2025). Bridging electrophysiology and neuroimaging to understand the neuronal correlates of spontaneous thinking and alertness during task-engagement [Paper presentation]. MaRBEL 2025, Liege, Belgium.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Simos, N.-I., Zoi, S., Mortaheb, S., Schmidt, C., Raimondo, F., & Demertzi, A. (03 July 2024). Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind-blanking occurrences [Paper presentation]. The Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Editorial reviewed

Boulakis, P., Simos, N.-I., Zoi, S., Mortaheb, S., Schmidt, C., Raimondo, F., & Demertzi, A. (31 May 2024). Autonomic arousal states alters mind-blanking report frequency [Paper presentation]. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences.
Editorial reviewed

Boulakis, P., Simos, N.-I., Zoi, S., Mortaheb, S., Schmidt, C., Raimondo, F., & Demertzi, A. (23 May 2024). Low autonomic arousal alters frequency of mind blanking reports [Paper presentation]. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Editorial reviewed

Boulakis, P., Koroma, M., Aurèle Robert de Beauchamp, Mortaheb, S., Bastin, C., & Demertzi, A. (23 November 2023). Age-dependent attentional style and arousal regulate the reportability of spontaneous mental states [Paper presentation]. NeuroCog2023, Brussels, Belgium.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Mortaheb, S., Van Calster, L., Majerus, S., & Demertzi, A. (2023). Whole-brain deactivations precede episodes of mind-blanking during ongoing mentation [Paper presentation]. 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, New York, United States.
Peer reviewed

Posters presentations in conferences with scientific selection committee

Boulakis, P. A., Kusztor, A., Andrillon, T., & Demertzi, A. (07 February 2025). Bridging electrophysiology and neuroimaging to understand the neuronal correlates of spontaneous thinking and alertness during task-engagement [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL meeting, Liege, Belgium.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Mortaheb, S., Schmidt, C., & Demertzi, A. (23 November 2023). Variations of autonomic arousal mediate mind-blanking report occurrences [Poster presentation]. NeuroCog2023.
Peer reviewed

Koroma, M., Raimondo, F., Boulakis, P., Strauss Mélanie, & Demertzi, A. (30 September 2022). Cardiac responses to auditory deviants track variations of hierarchical perceptual processing during sleep [Poster presentation]. ESRS 2022, Athens, Greece.
Editorial reviewed

Koroma, M., Robert de Beauchamp, A., Mortaheb, S., Boulakis, P., Bastin, C., & Demertzi, A. (2022). Age-dependent attentional style and arousal regulate reportability of spontaneous mental states [Poster presentation]. BAPS, Leuven, Belgium.
Editorial reviewed

Koroma, M., Robert de Beauchamp, A., Mortaheb, S., Boulakis, P., Bastin, C., & Demertzi, A. (2022). Age-dependent attentional style and arousal regulate reportability of spontaneous mental states [Poster presentation]. ASSC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Editorial reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Sitt, J. D., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (2022). Incongruent interoceptive signals shift our attention to ourselves [Poster presentation]. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Annual Meeting.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Sirr, J. D., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (2022). Shifting attention to ourselves : evidence from asynchronous interoceptive feedback [Poster presentation]. ΒAPS.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (23 November 2021). Neural Correlates of bodily attributions [Poster presentation]. NeuroCog 2021.
Editorial reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (2021). Interoceptive cardiac activity is attributed to oneself or other independently of synchronicity of heartbeat biofeedback [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Virtual Meeting.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (2021). Self-attribution of cardiac activity is mediated by synchronously presented feedback of heartbeats [Poster presentation]. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Mortaheb, S., Naccache, L., & Demertzi, A. (2021). Biofeedback facilitates attribution of bodily signals to oneself [Poster presentation]. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Annual Meeting.
Peer reviewed

Boulakis, P., Karitzis Antonis Panagiotis, & Kargopoulos, F. (2019). Teaching Logic – Cognitive and Metacognitive Differences in the Dual Process Model [Poster presentation]. Panhellenic Conference of Psychological Research.
Peer reviewed

Preprints

Koroma, M., Boulakis, P., Raimondo, F., Gialama, V., Blume, C., Strauss, M., & Demertzi, A. (2024). Cardiac responses to auditory irregularities reveal hierarchical information processing during sleep. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/322536. doi:10.1101/2024.09.24.614090

Koroma, M., Robert de Beauchamp, A., Mortaheb, S., Boulakis, P., Bastin, C., & Demertzi, A. (2023). Elsewhere or Blanked? Ongoing mental states are regulated by pupil-linked arousal and attentional style in healthy ageing. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/293726. doi:10.1101/2022.07.08.499379

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